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This manual is for preview-latex, a LaTeX preview mode for AUCTeX
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* preview-latex: (preview-latex).       Preview LaTeX fragments in Emacs
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preview-latex
*************

This manual may be copied under the conditions spelled out in *note
Copying this Manual::.

   preview-latex is a package embedding preview fragments into Emacs
source buffers under the AUCTeX editing environment for LaTeX.  It uses
'preview.sty' for the extraction of certain environments (most notably
displayed formulas).  Other applications of this style file are possible
and exist.

   The name of the package is really 'preview-latex', all in lowercase
letters, with a hyphen.  If you typeset it, you can use a sans-serif
font to visually offset it.

* Menu:

* Copying::                     Copying
* Introduction::                Getting started.
* Installation::                Make Install.
* Keys and lisp::               Key bindings and user-level lisp functions.
* Simple customization::        To make it fit in.
* Known problems::              When things go wrong.
* For advanced users::          Internals and more customizations.
* ToDo::                        Future development.
* Frequently Asked Questions::  All about preview-latex
* Copying this Manual::         GNU Free Documentation License
* Index::                       A menu of many topics.


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Copying
*******

For the conditions for copying parts of preview-latex, see the General
Public Licenses referres to in the copyright notices of the files, the
General Public Licenses accompanying them and the explanatory section in
*note (auctex)Copying::.

   This manual specifically is covered by the GNU Free Documentation
License (*note Copying this Manual::).


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1 Introduction
**************

Does your neck hurt from turning between previewer windows and the
source too often?  This AUCTeX component will render your displayed
LaTeX equations right into the editing window where they belong.

   The purpose of preview-latex is to embed LaTeX environments such as
display math or figures into the source buffers and switch conveniently
between source and image representation.

* Menu:

* What use is it?::
* Activating preview-latex::
* Getting started::
* Basic modes of operation::
* More documentation::
* Availability::
* Contacts::


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1.1 What use is it?
===================

WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) sometimes is considered all the
rage, sometimes frowned upon.  Do we really want it?  Wrong question.
The right question is _what_ we want from it.  Except when finetuning
the layout, we don't want to use printer fonts for on-screen text
editing.  The low resolution and contrast of a computer screen render
all but the coarsest printer fonts (those for low-quality newsprint)
unappealing, and the margins and pagination of the print are not wanted
on the screen, either.  On the other hand, more complex visual
compositions like math formulas and tables can't easily be taken in when
seen only in the source.  preview-latex strikes a balance: it only uses
graphic renditions of the output for certain, configurable constructs,
does this only when told, and then right in the source code.  Switching
back and forth between the source and preview is easy and natural and
can be done for each image independently.  Behind the scenes of
preview-latex, a sophisticated framework of other programs like
'dvipng', Dvips and Ghostscript are employed together with a special
LaTeX style file for extracting the material of interest in the
background and providing fast interactive response.


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1.2 Activating preview-latex
============================

After installation, the package may need to be activated (and remember
to activate AUCTeX too).  If preview-latex is installed via the Emacs
package manager (ELPA), activation should be automatic upon
installation.

   The usual activation (if it is not done automatically) would be

     (load "preview-latex.el" nil t t)

   If you still don't get a "Preview" menu in LaTeX mode in spite of
AUCTeX showing its "Command", your installation is broken.  One possible
cause are duplicate Lisp files that might be detectable with '<M-x>
list-load-path-shadows <RET>'.


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1.3 Getting started
===================

Once activated, preview-latex and its documentation will be accessible
via its menus (note that preview-latex requires AUCTeX to be loaded).
When you have loaded a LaTeX document (a sample document 'circ.tex' is
included in the distribution, but most documents including math and/or
figures should do), you can use its menu or 'C-c C-p C-d' (for
'Preview/Document').  Previews will now be generated for various objects
in your document.  You can use the time to take a short look at the
other menu entries and key bindings in the 'Preview' menu.  You'll see
the previewed objects change into a roadworks sign when preview-latex
has determined just what it is going to preview.  Note that you can
freely navigate the buffer while this is going on.  When the process is
finished you will see the objects typeset in your buffer.

   It is a bad idea, however, to edit the buffer before the roadworks
signs appear, since that is the moment when the correlation between the
original text and the buffer locations gets established.  If the buffer
changes before that point of time, the previews will not be placed where
they belong.  If you do want to change some obvious error you just
spotted, we recommend you stop the background process by pressing 'C-c
C-k'.

   To see/edit the LaTeX code for a specific object, put the point (the
cursor) on it and press 'C-c C-p C-p' (for 'Preview/at point').  It will
also do to click with the middle mouse button on the preview.  Now you
can edit the code, and generate a new preview by again pressing 'C-c C-p
C-p' (or by clicking with the middle mouse button on the icon before the
edited text).

   If you are using the 'desktop' package, previews will remain from one
session to the next as long as you don't kill your buffer.


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1.4 Basic modes of operation
============================

preview-latex has a number of methods for generating its graphics.  Its
default operation is equivalent to using the 'LaTeX' command from
AUCTeX.  If this happens to be a call of PDFLaTeX generating PDF output
(you need at least AUCTeX 11.51 for this), then Ghostscript will be
called directly on the resulting PDF file.  If a DVI file gets produced,
first Dvips and then Ghostscript get called by default.

   The image type to be generated by Ghostscript can be configured with

     M-x customize-variable RET preview-image-type RET

The default is 'png' (the most efficient image type).  A special setting
is 'dvipng' in case you have the 'dvipng' program installed.  In this
case, 'dvipng' will be used for converting DVI files and Ghostscript
(with a 'PNG' device) for converting PDF files.  'dvipng' is much faster
than the combination of Dvips and Ghostscript.  You can get downloads,
access to its CVS archive and further information from its project site
(https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/dvipng).


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1.5 More documentation
======================

After the installation, documentation in the form of this info manual
will be available.  You can access it with the standalone info reader
with

     info preview-latex

or by pressing 'C-h i d m preview-latex <RET>' in Emacs.  Once
preview-latex is activated, you can instead use 'C-c C-p <TAB>' (or the
menu entry 'Preview/Read documentation').

   Depending on your installation, a printable manual may also be
available in the form of 'preview-latex.dvi' or 'preview-latex.ps'.

   Detailed documentation for the LaTeX style used for extracting the
preview images is placed in 'preview.dvi' in a suitable directory during
installation; on typical teTeX-based systems,

     texdoc preview

will display it.


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1.6 Availability
================

The preview-latex project is now part of AUCTeX and accessible as part
of the AUCTeX project page (https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/auctex).
You can get its files from the AUCTeX download area
(https://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/auctex/).  As of AUCTeX 11.81,
preview-latex should already be integrated into AUCTeX, so no separate
download will be necessary.

   You will also find '.rpm' files there for Fedora and possibly SuSE.
Anonymous Git is available as well.


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1.7 Contacts
============

Bug reports should be sent by using 'M-x preview-report-bug <RET>', as
this will fill in a lot of information interesting to us.  If the
installation fails (but this should be a rare event), report bugs to
<bug-auctex@gnu.org>.

   There is a general discussion list for AUCTeX which also covers
preview-latex, look at <https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/auctex>.
For more information on the mailing list, send a message with just the
word "help" as subject or body to <auctex-request@gnu.org>.  For the
developers, there is the <auctex-devel@gnu.org> list; it would probably
make sense to direct feature requests and questions about internal
details there.  There is a low-volume read-only announcement list
available to which you can subscribe by sending a mail with "subscribe"
in the subject to <info-auctex-request@gnu.org>.

   Offers to support further development will be appreciated.  If you
want to show your appreciation with a donation to the main developer,
you can do so via PayPal to <dak@gnu.org>, and of course you can arrange
for service contracts or for added functionality.  Take a look at the
'TODO' list for suggestions in that area.


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2 Installation
**************

Installation is now being covered in *note (auctex)Installation::.


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3 Key bindings and user-level lisp functions
********************************************

preview-latex adds key bindings starting with 'C-c C-p' to the supported
modes of AUCTeX (*note (auctex)Key Index::).  It will also add its own
'Preview' menu in the menu bar, as well as an icon in the toolbar.

   The following only describes the interactive use: view the
documentation strings with 'C-h f' if you need the Lisp information.

'C-c C-p C-p'
'preview-at-point'
Preview/Generate previews (or toggle) at point
     If the cursor is positioned on or inside of a preview area, this
     toggles its visibility, regenerating the preview if necessary.  If
     not, it will run the surroundings through preview.  The
     surroundings include all areas up to the next valid preview, unless
     invalid previews occur before, in which case the area will include
     the last such preview in either direction.  And overriding any
     other action, if a region is active ('transient-mark-mode'), it is
     run through 'preview-region'.

'<mouse-2>'
     The middle mouse button has a similar action bound to it as
     'preview-at-point', only that it knows which preview to apply it to
     according to the position of the click.  You can click either
     anywhere on a previewed image, or when the preview is opened and
     showing the source text, you can click on the icon preceding the
     source text.  In other areas, the usual mouse key action
     (typically: paste) is not affected.

'<mouse-3>'
     The right mouse key pops up a context menu with several options:
     toggling the preview, regenerating it, removing it (leaving the
     unpreviewed text), copying the text inside of the preview, and
     copying it in a form suitable for copying as an image into a mail
     or news article.  This is a one-image variant of the following
     command:

'C-c C-p C-w'
'preview-copy-region-as-mml'
Copy a region as MML
     This command is also available as a variant in the context menu on
     the right mouse button (where the region is the preview that has
     been clicked on).  It copies the current region into the kill
     buffer in a form suitable for copying as a text including images
     into a mail or news article using mml-mode (*note Composing:
     (emacs-mime)Composing.).

     If you regenerate or otherwise kill the preview in its source
     buffer before the mail or news gets posted, this will fail.  Also
     you should generate images you want to send with
     'preview-transparent-border' set to 'nil', or the images will have
     an ugly border.  preview-latex detects this condition and asks
     whether to regenerate the region with borders switched off.  As
     this is an asynchronous operation running in the background, you'll
     need to call this command explicitly again to get the newly
     generated images into the kill ring.

     Preview your articles with 'mml-preview' (on 'C-c C-m P') to make
     sure they look fine.

'C-c C-p C-e'
'preview-environment'
Preview/Generate previews for environment
     Run preview on LaTeX environment.  The environments in
     'preview-inner-environments' are treated as inner levels so that
     for instance, the 'split' environment in
     '\begin{equation}\begin{split}...\end{split}\end{equation}' is
     properly displayed.  If called with a numeric argument, the
     corresponding number of outward nested environments is treated as
     inner levels.

'C-c C-p C-s'
'preview-section'
Preview/Generate previews for section
     Run preview on this LaTeX section.

'C-c C-p C-r'
'preview-region'
Preview/Generate previews for region
     Run preview on current region.

'C-c C-p C-b'
'preview-buffer'
Preview/Generate previews for buffer
     Run preview on the current buffer.

'C-c C-p C-d'
'preview-document'
Preview/Generate previews for document
     Run preview on the current document.

'C-c C-p C-c C-p'
'preview-clearout-at-point'
Preview/Remove previews at point
     Clear out (remove) the previews that are immediately adjacent to
     point.

'C-c C-p C-c C-s'
'preview-clearout-section'
Preview/Remove previews from section
     Clear out all previews in current section.

'C-c C-p C-c C-r'
'preview-clearout'
Preview/Remove previews from region
     Clear out all previews in the current region.

'C-c C-p C-c C-b'
'preview-clearout-buffer'
Preview/Remove previews from buffer
     Clear out all previews in current buffer.  This makes the current
     buffer lose all previews.

'C-c C-p C-c C-d'
'preview-clearout-document'
Preview/Remove previews from document
     Clear out all previews in current document.  The document consists
     of all buffers that have the same master file as the current
     buffer.  This makes the current document lose all previews.

'C-c C-p C-f'
'preview-cache-preamble'
Preview/Turn preamble cache on
     Dump a pregenerated format file.  For the rest of the session, this
     file is used when running on the same master file.  Use this if you
     know your LaTeX takes a long time to start up, the speedup will be
     most noticeable when generating single or few previews.  If you
     change your preamble, do this again.  preview-latex will try to
     detect the necessity of that automatically when editing changes to
     the preamble are done from within Emacs, but it will not notice if
     the preamble effectively changes because some included file or
     style file is tampered with.

     Note that support for preamble cache is limited for LaTeX variants.
     c.f.  <https://github.com/davidcarlisle/dpctex/issues/15>
        * XeLaTeX cannot use preamble cache at all.  The reason is
          intrinsic in XeLaTeX, so preview-latex can't help.
        * LuaLaTeX works with preamble cache only when the preamble is
          simple enough, i.e., when it doesn't load opentype fonts and
          it doesn't use lua codes in preamble.

'C-c C-p C-c C-f'
'preview-cache-preamble-off'
Preview/Turn preamble cache off
     Clear the pregenerated format file and stop using preambles for the
     current document.  If the caching gives you problems, use this.

'C-c C-p C-i'
'preview-goto-info-page'
Preview/Read Documentation
     Read this info manual.

'M-x preview-report-bug <RET>'
'preview-report-bug'
Preview/Report Bug
     This is the preferred way of reporting bugs as it will fill in what
     version of preview-latex you are using as well as versions of
     relevant other software, and also some of the more important
     settings.  Please use this method of reporting, if at all possible
     and before reporting a bug, have a look at *note Known problems::.

'C-c C-k'
LaTeX/TeX Output/Kill Job
     Kills the preview-generating process.  This is really an AUCTeX
     keybinding, but it is included here as a hint.  If you are
     generating a preview and then make a change to the buffer,
     preview-latex may be confused and place the previews wrong.


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4 Simple customization
**********************

Customization options can be found by typing 'M-x customize-group <RET>
preview <RET>'.  Remember to set the option when you have changed it.
The list of suggestions can be made very long (and is covered in detail
in *note For advanced users::), but some are:

   * Change the color of the preview background

     If you use a non-white background in Emacs, you might have color
     artifacts at the edges of your previews.  Playing around with the
     option 'preview-transparent-color' in the 'Preview Appearance'
     group might improve things.  With some settings, the cursor may
     cover the whole background of a preview, however.

     This option is specific to the display engine in use.

   * Showing '\label's

     When using preview-latex, the '\label's are hidden by the previews.
     It is possible to make them visible in the output by using the
     LaTeX package 'showkeys' alternatively 'showlabels'.  However, the
     boxes of these labels will be outside the region preview-latex
     considers as the preview image.  To enable a similar mechanism
     internal to preview-latex, enable the 'showlabels' option in the
     variable 'preview-default-option-list' in the 'Preview Latex'
     group.

     It must be noted, however, that a much better idea may be to use
     the RefTeX package for managing references.  *Note RefTeX in a
     Nutshell: (reftex)RefTeX in a Nutshell.

   * Open previews automatically

     The current default is to open previews automatically when you
     enter them with cursor left/right motions.  Auto-opened previews
     will close again once the cursor leaves them again (this is also
     done when doing incremental search, or query-replace operations),
     unless you changed anything in it.  In that case, you will have to
     regenerate the preview (via e.g., 'C-c C-p C-p').  Other options
     for 'preview-auto-reveal' are available via 'customize'.

   * Automatically cache preambles

     Currently preview-latex asks you whether you want to cache the
     document preamble (everything before '\begin{document}') before it
     generates previews for a buffer the first time.  Caching the
     preamble will significantly speed up regeneration of previews.  The
     larger your preamble is, the more this will be apparent.  Once a
     preamble is cached, preview-latex will try to keep track of when it
     is changed, and dump a fresh format in that case.  If you
     experience problems with this, or if you want it to happen without
     asking you the first time, you can customize the variable
     'preview-auto-cache-preamble'.

   * Attempt to keep counters accurate when editing

     Since preview-latex frequently runs only small regions through
     LaTeX, values like equation counters are not consistent from run to
     run.  If this bothers you, customize the variable
     'preview-preserve-counters' to 't' (this is consulted by
     'preview-required-option-list').  LaTeX will then output a load of
     counter information during compilation, and this information will
     be used on subsequent updates to keep counters set to useful
     values.  The additional information takes additional time to
     analyze, but this is relevant mostly only when you are regenerating
     all previews at once, and maybe you will be less tempted to do so
     when counters appear more or less correct.

   * Preview your favourite LaTeX constructs

     If you have a certain macro or environment that you want to
     preview, first check if it can be chosen by cutomizing
     'preview-default-options-list' in the 'Preview Latex' group.

     If it is not available there, you can add it to
     'preview-default-preamble' also in the 'Preview Latex' group, by
     adding a '\PreviewMacro' or '\PreviewEnvironment' entry (*note
     Provided commands::) _after_ the '\RequirePackage' line.  For
     example, if you want to preview the 'center' environment, press the
     <Show> button and the last <INS> button, then add

          \PreviewEnvironment{center}
     in the space that just opened.  Note that since 'center' is a
     generic formatting construct of LaTeX, a general configuration like
     that is not quite prudent.  You better to do this on a per-document
     base so that it is easy to disable this behavior when you find this
     particular entry gives you trouble.

     One possibility is to save such settings in the corresponding
     file-local variable instead of your global configuration (*note
     Local Variables in Files: (emacs)File Variables.).  A perhaps more
     convenient place for such options would be in a configuration file
     in the same directory with your project (*note Package options::).

     The usual file for preview-latex preconfiguration is
     'prauctex.cfg'.  If you also want to keep the systemwide defaults,
     you should add a line

          \InputIfFileExists{preview/prauctex.cfg}{}{}
     to your own version of 'prauctex.cfg' (this is assuming that global
     files relating to the 'preview' package are installed in a
     subdirectory 'preview', the default behavior).

   * Don't preview inline math

     If you have performance problems because your document is full of
     inline math ('$...$'), or if your usage of '$' conflicts with
     preview-latex's, you can turn off inline math previews.  In the
     'Preview Latex' group, remove 'textmath' from
     'preview-default-option-list' by customizing this variable.


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5 Known problems
****************

A number of issues are known concerning the interoperation with various
other software.  Some of the known problems can be solved by moving to
newer versions of the problematic software or by simple patches.

* Menu:

* Font problems with Dvips::
* Too small bounding boxes::
* x-symbol interoperation::
* Middle-clicks paste instead of toggling::
* No images are displayed with gs 9.27 and earlier::

   If you find something not mentioned here, please send a bug report
using 'M-x preview-report-bug <RET>', which will fill in a lot of
information interesting to us and send it to the <bug-auctex@gnu.org>
list.  Please use the bug reporting commands if at all possible.


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5.1 Font problems with Dvips
============================

Some fonts have been reported to produce wrong characters with
preview-latex.  preview-latex calls Dvips by default with the option
'-Pwww' in order to get scalable fonts for nice results.  If you are
using antialiasing, however, the results might be sufficiently nice with
bitmapped fonts, anyway.  You might try '-Ppdf' for another stab at
scalable fonts, or other printer definitions.  Use

     'M-x customize-variable <RET> preview-fast-dvips-command <RET>'
and
     'M-x customize-variable <RET> preview-dvips-command <RET>'
in order to customize this.

   One particular problem is that several printer setup files (typically
in a file called '/usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/config.pdf' if you are
using the '-Ppdf' switch) contain the 'G' option for 'character
shifting'.  This option will result in 'fi' being rendered as '£'
(British Pounds sign) in several fonts, unless your version of Dvips has
a long-standing bug in its implementation fixed (only very recent
versions of Dvips have).


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5.2 Too small bounding boxes
============================

The bounding box of a preview is determined by the LaTeX package using
the pure TeX bounding boxes.  If there is material extending outside of
the TeX box, that material will be missing from the preview image.  This
happens for the label-showing boxes from the 'showkeys' package.  This
particular problem can be circumvented by using the 'showlabels' option
of the preview package.

   In general, you should try to fix the problem in the TeX code, like
avoiding drawing outside of the picture with PSTricks.

   One possible remedy is to set 'preview-fast-conversion' to 'Off'
(*note The Emacs interface::).  The conversion will take more time, but
will then use the bounding boxes from EPS files generated by Dvips.

   Dvips generally does not miss things, but it does not understand
PostScript constructs like '\resizebox' or '\rotate' commands, so will
generate rather wrong boxes for those.  Dvips can be helped with the
'psfixbb' package option to preview (*note The LaTeX style file::),
which will tag the corners of the included TeX box.  This will mostly be
convenient for _pure_ PostScript stuff like that created by PSTricks,
which Dvips would otherwise reserve no space for.


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5.3 x-symbol interoperation
===========================

Thanks to the work of Christoph Wedler, starting with version
'4.0h/beta' of x-symbol, the line parsing of AUCTeX and preview-latex is
fully supported.  Earlier versions exhibit problems.  However, versions
before 4.2.2 will cause a drastic slowdown of preview-latex's parsing
pass, so we don't recommend to use versions earlier than that.

   If you wonder what x-symbol is, it is a package that transforms
various tokens and subscripts to a more readable form while editing and
offers a few input methods handy especially for dealing with math.  Take
a look at <http://x-symbol.sourceforge.net>.

   x-symbol versions up to 4.5.1-beta at least require an 8bit-clean TeX
implementation (meaning that its terminal output should not use
'^^'-started escape sequences) for cooperation with preview-latex.
Later versions may get along without it, like preview-latex does now.

   If you experience problems with 'circ.tex' in connection with both
x-symbol and Latin-1 characters, you may need to change your language
environment or, as a last resort, customize the variable
'LaTeX-command-style' by replacing the command 'latex' with 'latex
-translate-file=cp8bit'.


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5.4 Middle-clicks paste instead of toggling
===========================================

This is probably the fault of your favorite package.  'isearch.el' is
known to be affected while searches are in progress, but the code is
such a complicated mess that no patch is in sight.  Better just end the
search with '<RET>' before toggling and resume with 'C-s C-s' or similar
afterwards.  Since previews over the current match will auto-open,
anyway, this should not be much of a problem in practice.


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5.5 No images are displayed with gs 9.27 and earlier
====================================================

preview-latex tries to adjust the foreground and background colors of
generated images to those of Emacs.  Unfortunately, incompatible changes
introduced in Ghostscript 9.27 breaks the traditional method partially,
and preview-latex can display no images under certain circumstances.

   A new method implemented alternatively works only with Ghostscript >
9.27.  If you are using Ghostscript 9.27 or earlier, customize the
option 'preview-pdf-adjust-color-method'.

 -- User Option: preview-pdf-adjust-color-method
     Method to adjust colors of images generated from PDF.  It is not
     consulted when the LaTeX command produces DVI files.

     When the option is 't' (default), preview-latex adjusts the FG and
     BG colors of the generated images by the new method.  This method
     requires that Ghostscript has working 'DELAYBIND' feature, thus is
     invalid with gs 9.27 (and possibly < 9.27).

     When it is 'compatible', preview-latex uses traditional method.
     This option is provided for backward compatibility with older gs.
     See the below explanation for detail.

     When 'nil', no adjustment is done and "black on white" image is
     generated regardless of Emacs color.  This is provided for fallback
     for gs 9.27 users with customized foreground color.  See the below
     explanation for detail.

     When the LaTeX command produces PDF rather than DVI and Emacs has
     non-trivial foreground color, the traditional method ('compatible')
     makes gs >= 9.27 to stop with error.  Here, "non-trivial foreground
     color" includes customized themes.

     If you use such non-trivial foreground color and the version of
     Ghostscript equals to 9.27, you have two options:
       1. Choose the value 'compatible' and customize
          'preview-reference-face' to have default (black) foreground
          color.  This makes the generated image almost non-readable on
          dark background, so the next option would be your only choice
          in that case.
       2. Choose the value 'nil', which forces plain "black on white"
          appearance for the generated image.  You can at least read
          what are written in the image although they may not match with
          your Emacs color well.

     The default value used to be 'compatible' for short period before
     Ghostscript 9.50 was released but now is 't'.


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6 For advanced users
********************

This package consists of two parts: a LaTeX style that splits the output
into appropriate parts with one preview object on each page, and an
Emacs-lisp part integrating the thing into Emacs (aided by AUCTeX).

* Menu:

* The LaTeX style file::
* The Emacs interface::
* The preview images::
* Misplaced previews::


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6.1 The LaTeX style file
========================

The main purpose of this package is the extraction of certain
environments (most notably displayed formulas) from LaTeX sources as
graphics.  This works with DVI files postprocessed by either Dvips and
Ghostscript or dvipng, but it also works when you are using PDFTeX for
generating PDF files (usually also postprocessed by Ghostscript).

   Current uses of the package include the preview-latex package for
WYSIWYG functionality in the AUCTeX editing environment, generation of
previews in LyX, as part of the operation of the pst-pdf package, the
tbook XML system and some other tools.

   Producing EPS files with Dvips and its derivatives using the '-E'
option is not a good alternative: People make do by fiddling around with
'\thispagestyle{empty}' and hoping for the best (namely, that the
specified contents will indeed fit on single pages), and then trying to
guess the baseline of the resulting code and stuff, but this is at best
dissatisfactory.  The preview package provides an easy way to ensure
that exactly one page per request gets shipped, with a well-defined
baseline and no page decorations.  While you still can use the preview
package with the 'classic'

     dvips -E -i

invocation, there are better ways available that don't rely on Dvips not
getting confused by PostScript specials.

   For most applications, you'll want to make use of the 'tightpage'
option.  This will embed the page dimensions into the PostScript or PDF
code, obliterating the need to use the '-E -i' options to Dvips.  You
can then produce all image files with a single run of Ghostscript from a
single PDF or PostScript (as opposed to EPS) file.

   Various options exist that will pass TeX dimensions and other
information about the respective shipped out material (including
descender size) into the log file, where external applications might
make use of it.

   The possibility for generating a whole set of graphics with a single
run of Ghostscript (whether from LaTeX or PDFLaTeX) increases both speed
and robustness of applications.  It is also feasible to use dvipng on a
DVI file with the options

     -picky -noghostscript

to omit generating any image file that requires Ghostscript, then let a
script generate all missing files using Dvips/Ghostscript.  This will
usually speed up the process significantly.

* Menu:

* Package options::
* Provided commands::


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6.1.1 Package options
---------------------

The package is included with the customary

     \usepackage[OPTIONS]{preview}

You should usually load this package as the last one, since it redefines
several things that other packages may also provide.

   The following options are available:

'active'
     is the most essential option.  If this option is not specified, the
     'preview' package will be inactive and the document will be typeset
     as if the 'preview' package were not loaded, except that all
     declarations and environments defined by the package are still
     legal but have no effect.  This allows defining previewing
     characteristics in your document, and only activating them by
     calling LaTeX as

          latex '\PassOptionsToPackage{active}{preview} \input{FILENAME}'

'noconfig'
     Usually the file 'prdefault.cfg' gets loaded whenever the 'preview'
     package gets activated.  'prdefault.cfg' is supposed to contain
     definitions that can cater for otherwise bad results, for example,
     if a certain document class would otherwise lead to trouble.  It
     also can be used to override any settings made in this package,
     since it is loaded at the very end of it.  In addition, there may
     be configuration files specific for certain 'preview' options like
     'auctex' which have more immediate needs.  The 'noconfig' option
     suppresses loading of those option files, too.
'psfixbb'
     Dvips determines the bounding boxes from the material in the DVI
     file it understands.  Lots of PostScript specials are not part of
     that.  Since the TeX boxes do not make it into the DVI file, but
     merely characters, rules and specials do, Dvips might include far
     too small areas.  The option 'psfixbb' will include '/dev/null' as
     a graphic file in the ultimate upper left and lower right corner of
     the previewed box.  This will make Dvips generate an appropriate
     bounding box.
'dvips'
     If this option is specified as a class option or to other packages,
     several packages pass things like page size information to Dvips,
     or cause crop marks or draft messages written on pages.  This
     seriously hampers the usability of previews.  If this option is
     specified, the changes will be undone if possible.
'pdftex'
     If this option is set, PDFTeX is assumed as the output driver.
     This mainly affects the 'tightpage' option.
'xetex'
     If this option is set, XeTeX is assumed as the output driver.  This
     mainly affects the 'tightpage' option.
'displaymath'
     will make all displayed math environments subject to preview
     processing.  This will typically be the most desired option.
'floats'
     will make all float objects subject to preview processing.  If you
     want to be more selective about what floats to pass through to a
     preview, you should instead use the '\PreviewSnarfEnvironment'
     command on the floats you want to have previewed.
'textmath'
     will make all text math subject to previews.  Since math mode is
     used throughly inside of LaTeX even for other purposes, this works
     by redefining '\(', '\)' and '$' and the 'math' environment
     (apparently some people use that).  Only occurences of these text
     math delimiters in later loaded packages and in the main document
     will thus be affected.
'graphics'
     will subject all '\includegraphics' commands to a preview.
'sections'
     will subject all section headers to a preview.
'delayed'
     will delay all activations and redefinitions the 'preview' package
     makes until '\''begin{document}'.  The purpose of this is to cater
     for documents which should be subjected to the 'preview' package
     without having been prepared for it.  You can process such
     documents with

          latex '\RequirePackage[active,delayed,OPTIONS]{preview}
          \input{FILENAME}'

     This relaxes the requirement to be loading the 'preview' package as
     last package.
DRIVER
     loads a special driver file 'prDRIVER.def'.  The remaining options
     are implemented through the use of driver files.
'auctex'
     This driver will produce fake error messages at the start and end
     of every preview environment that enable the Emacs package
     preview-latex in connection with AUCTeX to pinpoint the exact
     source location where the previews have originated.  Unfortunately,
     there is no other reliable means of passing the current TeX input
     position _in_ a line to external programs.  In order to make the
     parsing more robust, this option also switches off quite a few
     diagnostics that could be misinterpreted.

     You should not specify this option manually, since it will only be
     needed by automated runs that want to parse the pseudo error
     messages.  Those runs will then use '\PassOptionsToPackage' in
     order to effect the desired behaviour.  In addition, 'prauctex.cfg'
     will get loaded unless inhibited by the 'noconfig' option.  This
     caters for the most frequently encountered problematic commands.
'showlabels'
     During the editing process, some people like to see the label names
     in their equations, figures and the like.  Now if you are using
     Emacs for editing, and in particular preview-latex, I'd strongly
     recommend that you check out the RefTeX package which pretty much
     obliterates the need for this kind of functionality.  If you still
     want it, standard LaTeX provides it with the 'showkeys' package,
     and there is also the less encompassing 'showlabels' package.
     Unfortunately, since those go to some pain not to change the page
     layout and spacing, they also don't change 'preview''s idea of the
     TeX dimensions of the involved boxes.  So if you are using
     'preview' for determing bounding boxes, those packages are mostly
     useless.  The option 'showlabels' offers a substitute for them.
'tightpage'
     It is not uncommon to want to use the results of 'preview' as
     graphic images for some other application.  One possibility is to
     generate a flurry of EPS files with

          dvips -E -i -Pwww -o OUTPUTFILE.000 INPUTFILE

     However, in case those are to be processed further into graphic
     image files by Ghostscript, this process is inefficient since all
     of those files need to be processed one by one.  In addition, it is
     necessary to extract the bounding box comments from the EPS files
     and convert them into page dimension parameters for Ghostscript in
     order to avoid full-page graphics.  This is not even possible if
     you wanted to use Ghostscript in a _single_ run for generating the
     files from a single PostScript file, since Dvips will in that case
     leave no bounding box information anywhere.

     The solution is to use the 'tightpage' option.  That way a single
     command line like

          gs -sDEVICE=png16m -dTextAlphaBits=4 -r300
          -dGraphicsAlphaBits=4 -dSAFER -q -dNOPAUSE
          -sOutputFile=OUTPUTFILE%d.png INPUTFILE.ps

     will be able to produce tight graphics from a single PostScript
     file generated with Dvips _without_ use of the options '-E -i', in
     a single run.

     The 'tightpage' option actually also works when using the 'pdftex'
     option and generating PDF files with PDFTeX.  The resulting PDF
     file has separate page dimensions for every page and can directly
     be converted with one run of Ghostscript into image files.

     If neither 'dvips' or 'pdftex' have been specified, the
     corresponding option will get autodetected and invoked.

     If you need this in a batch environment where you don't want to use
     'preview''s automatic extraction facilities, no problem: just don't
     use any of the extraction options, and wrap everything to be
     previewed into 'preview' environments.  This is how LyX does its
     math previews.

     If the pages under the 'tightpage' option are just too tight, you
     can adjust by setting the length '\PreviewBorder' to a different
     value by using '\setlength'.  The default value is '0.50001bp',
     which is half of a usual PostScript point, rounded up.  If you go
     below this value, the resulting page size may drop below '1bp', and
     Ghostscript does not seem to like that.  If you need finer control,
     you can adjust the bounding box dimensions individually by changing
     the macro '\PreviewBbAdjust' with the help of '\renewcommand'.  Its
     default value is

          \newcommand \PreviewBbAdjust
          {-\PreviewBorder -\PreviewBorder
          \PreviewBorder  \PreviewBorder}

     This adjusts the left, lower, right and upper borders by the given
     amount.  The macro must contain 4 TeX dimensions after another, and
     you may not omit the units if you specify them explicitly instead
     of by register.  PostScript points have the unit 'bp'.
'lyx'
     This option is for the sake of LyX developers.  It will output a
     few diagnostics relevant for the sake of LyX' preview functionality
     (at the time of writing, mostly implemented for math insets, in
     versions of LyX starting with 1.3.0).
'counters'
     This writes out diagnostics at the start and the end of previews.
     Only the counters changed since the last output get written, and if
     no counters changed, nothing gets written at all.  The list
     consists of counter name and value, both enclosed in '{}' braces,
     followed by a space.  The last such pair is followed by a colon
     (':') if it is at the start of the preview snippet, and by a period
     ('.') if it is at the end.  The order of different diagnostics like
     this being issued depends on the order of the specification of the
     options when calling the package.

     Systems like preview-latex use this for keeping counters accurate
     when single previews are regenerated.
'footnotes'
     This makes footnotes render as previews, and only as their footnote
     symbol.  A convenient editing feature inside of Emacs.

   The following options are just for debugging purposes of the package
and similar to the corresponding TeX commands they allude to:

'tracingall'
     causes lots of diagnostic output to appear in the log file during
     the preview collecting phases of TeX's operation.  In contrast to
     the similarly named TeX command, it will not switch to
     '\errorstopmode', nor will it change the setting of
     '\tracingonline'.
'showbox'
     This option will show the contents of the boxes shipped out to the
     DVI files.  It also sets '\showboxbreadth' and '\showboxdepth' to
     their maximum values at the end of loading this package, but you
     may reset them if you don't like that.


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6.1.2 Provided commands
-----------------------

'\begin{preview}...\end{preview}'
     The 'preview' environment causes its contents to be set as a single
     preview image.  Insertions like figures and footnotes (except those
     included in minipages) will typically lead to error messages or be
     lost.  In case the 'preview' package has not been activated, the
     contents of this environment will be typeset normally.

'\begin{nopreview}...\end{nopreview}'
     The 'nopreview' environment will cause its contents not to undergo
     any special treatment by the 'preview' package.  When 'preview' is
     active, the contents will be discarded like all main text that does
     not trigger the 'preview' hooks.  When 'preview' is not active, the
     contents will be typeset just like the main text.

     Note that both of these environments typeset things as usual when
     preview is not active.  If you need something typeset
     conditionally, use the '\ifPreview' conditional for it.

'\PreviewMacro'
     If you want to make a macro like '\includegraphics' (actually, this
     is what is done by the 'graphics' option to 'preview') produce a
     preview image, you put a declaration like

          \PreviewMacro[*[[!]{\includegraphics}

     or, more readable,

          \PreviewMacro[{*[][]{}}]{\includegraphics}

     into your preamble.  The optional argument to '\PreviewMacro'
     specifies the arguments '\includegraphics' accepts, since this is
     necessary information for properly ending the preview box.  Note
     that if you are using the more readable form, you have to enclose
     the argument in a '[{' and '}]' pair.  The inner braces are
     necessary to stop any included '[]' pairs from prematurely ending
     the optional argument, and to make a single '{}' denoting an
     optional argument not get stripped away by TeX's argument parsing.

     The letters simply mean

     '*'
          indicates an optional '*' modifier, as in '\includegraphics*'.
     '['
          indicates an optional argument in brackets.  This syntax is
          somewhat baroque, but brief.
     '[]'
          also indicates an optional argument in brackets.  Be sure to
          have encluded the entire optional argument specification in an
          additional pair of braces as described above.
     '!'
          indicates a mandatory argument.
     '{}'
          indicates the same.  Again, be sure to have that additional
          level of braces around the whole argument specification.
     '?'DELIMITER{TRUE CASE}{FALSE CASE}
          is a conditional.  The next character is checked against being
          equal to DELIMITER.  If it is, the specification TRUE CASE is
          used for the further parsing, otherwise FALSE CASE will be
          employed.  In neither case is something consumed from the
          input, so {TRUE CASE} will still have to deal with the
          upcoming delimiter.
     '@'{LITERAL SEQUENCE}
          will insert the given sequence literally into the executed
          call of the command.
     '-'
          will just drop the next token.  It will probably be most often
          used in the true branch of a '?' specification.
     '#'{ARGUMENT}{REPLACEMENT}
          is a transformation rule that calls a macro with the given
          argument and replacement text on the rest of the argument
          list.  The replacement is used in the executed call of the
          command.  This can be used for parsing arbitrary constructs.
          For example, the '[]' option could manually be implemented
          with the option string '?[{#{[#1]}{[{#1}]}}{}'.  PStricks
          users might enjoy this sort of flexibility.
     ':'{ARGUMENT}{REPLACEMENT}
          is again a transformation rule.  As opposed to '#', however,
          the result of the transformation is parsed again.  You'll
          rarely need this.

     There is a second optional argument in brackets that can be used to
     declare any default action to be taken instead.  This is mostly for
     the sake of macros that influence numbering: you would want to keep
     their effects in that respect.  The default action should use '#1'
     for referring to the original (not the patched) command with the
     parsed options appended.  Not specifying a second optional argument
     here is equivalent to specifying '[#1]'.

'\PreviewMacro*'
     A similar invocation '\PreviewMacro*' simply throws the macro and
     all of its arguments declared in the manner above away.  This is
     mostly useful for having things like '\footnote' not do their magic
     on their arguments.  More often than not, you don't want to declare
     any arguments to scan to '\PreviewMacro*' since you would want the
     remaining arguments to be treated as usual text and typeset in that
     manner instead of being thrown away.  An exception might be, say,
     sort keys for '\cite'.

     A second optional argument in brackets can be used to declare any
     default action to be taken instead.  This is for the sake of macros
     that influence numbering: you would want to keep their effects in
     that respect.  The default action might use '#1' for referring to
     the original (not the patched) command with the parsed options
     appended.  Not specifying a second optional argument here is
     equivalent to specifying '[]' since the command usually gets thrown
     away.

     As an example for using this argument, you might want to specify

          \PreviewMacro*[{[]}][#1{}]{\footnote}

     This will replace a footnote by an empty footnote, but taking any
     optional parameter into account, since an optional paramter changes
     the numbering scheme.  That way the real argument for the footnote
     remains for processing by preview-latex.

'\PreviewEnvironment'
     The macro '\PreviewEnvironment' works just as '\PreviewMacro' does,
     only for environments.
'\PreviewEnvironment*'
     And the same goes for '\PreviewEnvironment*' as compared to
     '\PreviewMacro*'.

'\PreviewSnarfEnvironment'
     This macro does not typeset the original environment inside of a
     preview box, but instead typesets just the contents of the original
     environment inside of the preview box, leaving nothing for the
     original environment.  This has to be used for figures, for
     example, since they would

       1. produce insertion material that cannot be extracted to the
          preview properly,
       2. complain with an error message about not being in outer par
          mode.

'\PreviewOpen'
'\PreviewClose'
     Those Macros form a matched preview pair.  This is for macros that
     behave similar as '\begin' and '\end' of an environment.  It is
     essential for the operation of '\PreviewOpen' that the macro
     treated with it will open an additional group even when the preview
     falls inside of another preview or inside of a 'nopreview'
     environment.  Similarly, the macro treated with '\PreviewClose'
     will close an environment even when inactive.

'\ifPreview'
     In case you need to know whether 'preview' is active, you can use
     the conditional '\ifPreview' together with '\else' and '\fi'.


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6.2 The Emacs interface
=======================

You can use 'M-x customize-group <RET> preview-latex <RET>' in order to
customize these variables, or use the menus for it.  We explain the
various available options together with explaining how they work
together in making preview-latex work as intended.

'preview-LaTeX-command'
     When you generate previews on a buffer or a region, the command in
     'preview-LaTeX-command' gets run (that variable should only be
     changed with Customize since its structure is somewhat peculiar,
     though expressive).  As usual with AUCTeX, you can continue working
     while this is going on.  It is not a good idea to change the file
     until after preview-latex has established where to place the
     previews which it can only do after the LaTeX run completes.  This
     run produces a host of pseudo-error messages that get parsed by
     preview-latex at the end of the LaTeX run and give it the necessary
     information about where in the source file the LaTeX code for the
     various previews is located exactly.  The parsing takes a moment
     and will render Emacs busy.

'preview-LaTeX-command-replacements'
     This variable specifies transformations to be used before calling
     the configured command.  One possibility is to have '\pdfoutput=0 '
     appended to every command starting with 'pdf'.  This particular
     setting is available as the shortcut
     'preview-LaTeX-disable-pdfoutput'.  Since preview-latex can work
     with PDF files by now, there is little incentive for using this
     option, anymore (for projects not requiring PDF output, the added
     speed of 'dvipng' might make this somewhat attractive).

'preview-required-option-list'
     'preview-LaTeX-command' uses 'preview-required-option-list' in
     order to pass options such as 'auctex', 'active' and 'dvips' to the
     'preview' package.  This means that the user need (and should) not
     supply these in the document itself in case he wants to be able to
     still compile his document without it turning into an incoherent
     mass of little pictures.  These options even get passed in when the
     user loads 'preview' explicitly in his document.

     The default includes an option 'counters' that is controlled by the
     boolean variable

'preview-preserve-counters'
     This option will cause the 'preview' package to emit information
     that will assist in keeping things like equation counters and
     section numbers reasonably correct even when you are regenerating
     only single previews.

'preview-default-option-list'
'preview-default-preamble'
     If the document does not call in the package 'preview' itself (via
     '\usepackage') in the preamble, the preview package is loaded using
     default options from 'preview-default-option-list' and additional
     commands specified in 'preview-default-preamble'.

'preview-fast-conversion'
     This is relevant only for DVI mode.  It defaults to 'On' and
     results in the whole document being processed as one large
     PostScript file from which the single images are extracted with the
     help of parsing the PostScript for use of so-called DSC comments.
     The bounding boxes are extracted with the help of TeX instead of
     getting them from Dvips.  If you are experiencing bounding box
     problems, try setting this option to 'Off'.

'preview-prefer-TeX-bb'
     If this option is 'On', it tells preview-latex never to try to
     extract bounding boxes from the bounding box comments of EPS files,
     but rather rely on the boxes it gets from TeX.  If you activated
     'preview-fast-conversion', this is done, anyhow, since there are no
     EPS files from which to read this information.  The option defaults
     to 'Off', simply because about the only conceivable reason to
     switch off 'preview-fast-conversion' would be that you have some
     bounding box problem and want to get Dvips' angle on that matter.

'preview-scale-function'
'preview-reference-face'
'preview-document-pt-list'
'preview-default-document-pt'
     'preview-scale-function' determines by what factor images should be
     scaled when appearing on the screen.  If you specify a numerical
     value here, the physical size on the screen will be that of the
     original paper output scaled by the specified factor, at least if
     Emacs' information about screen size and resolution are correct.
     The default is to let 'preview-scale-from-face' determine the scale
     function.  This function determines the scale factor by making the
     size of the default font in the document match that of the
     on-screen fonts.

     The size of the screen fonts is deduced from the font
     'preview-reference-face' (usually the default face used for
     display), the size of the default font for the document is
     determined by calling 'preview-document-pt'.  This function
     consults the members of 'preview-document-pt-list' in turn until it
     gets the desired information.  The default consults first
     'preview-parsed-font-size', then calls 'preview-auctex-font-size'
     which asks AUCTeX about any size specification like '12pt' to the
     documentclass that it might have detected when parsing the
     document, and finally reverts to just assuming
     'preview-default-document-pt' as the size used in the document
     (defaulting to 10pt).

     If you find that the size of previews and the other Emacs display
     clashes, something goes wrong.  'preview-parsed-font-size' is
     determined at '\begin{document}' time; if the default font size
     changes after that, it will not get reported.  If you have an
     outdated version of 'preview.sty' in your path, the size might not
     be reported at all.  If in this case AUCTeX is unable to find a
     size specification, and if you are using a document class with a
     different default value (like KomaScript), the default fallback
     assumption will probably be wrong and preview-latex will scale up
     things too large.  So better specify those size options even when
     you know that LaTeX does not need them: preview-latex might benefit
     from them.  Another possibility for error is that you have not
     enabled AUCTeX's document parsing options.  The fallback method of
     asking AUCTeX about the size might be disabled in future versions
     of preview-latex since in general it is more reliable to get this
     information from the LaTeX run itself.

'preview-fast-dvips-command'
'preview-dvips-command'
     The regular command for turning a DVI file into a single PostScript
     file is 'preview-fast-dvips-command', while 'preview-dvips-command'
     is used for cranking out a DVI file where every preview is in a
     separate EPS file.  Which of the two commands gets used depends on
     the setting of 'preview-fast-conversion'.  The printer specified
     here by default is '-Pwww' by default, which will usually get you
     scalable fonts where available.  If you are experiencing problems,
     you might want to try playing around with Dvips options (*note
     (dvips)Command-line options::).

     The conversion of the previews into PostScript or EPS files gets
     started after the LaTeX run completes when Emacs recognizes the
     first image while parsing the error messages.  When Emacs has
     finished parsing the error messages, it activates all detected
     previews.  This entails throwing away any previous previews
     covering the same areas, and then replacing the text in its visual
     appearance by a placeholder looking like a roadworks sign.

'preview-nonready-icon-specs'
     This is the roadworks sign displayed while previews are being
     prepared.  You may want to customize the font sizes at which
     preview-latex switches over between different icon sizes, and the
     ascent ratio which determines how high above the base line the icon
     gets placed.

'preview-error-icon-specs'
'preview-icon-specs'
     Those are icons placed before the source code of an opened preview
     and, respectively, the image specs to be used for PostScript
     errors, and a normal open preview in text representation.

'preview-inner-environments'
     This is a list of environments that are regarded as inner levels of
     an outer environment when doing 'preview-environment'.  One example
     when this is needed is in
     '\begin{equation}\begin{split}...\end{split}\end{equation}', and
     accordingly 'split' is one entry in 'preview-inner-environments'.


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6.3 The preview images
======================

'preview-image-type'
'preview-image-creators'
'preview-gs-image-type-alist'
     What happens when LaTeX is finished depends on the configuration of
     'preview-image-type'.  What to do for each of the various settings
     is specified in the variable 'preview-image-creators'.  The options
     to pass into Ghostscript and what Emacs image type to use is
     specified in 'preview-gs-image-type-alist'.

     'preview-image-type' defaults to 'png'.  For this to work, your
     version of Ghostscript needs to support the 'png16m' device.  If
     you are experiencing problems here, you might want to reconfigure
     'gs-image-type-alist' or 'preview-image-type'.  Reconfiguring
     'preview-image-creators' is only necessary for adding additional
     image types.

     Most devices make preview-latex start up a single Ghostscript
     process for the entire preview run (as opposed to one per image)
     and feed it either sections of a PDF file (if PDFLaTeX was used),
     or (after running Dvips) sections of a single PostScript file or
     separate EPS files in sequence for conversion into PNG format which
     can be displayed much faster by Emacs.  Actually, not in sequence
     but backwards since you are most likely editing at the end of the
     document.  And as an added convenience, any preview that happens to
     be on-screen is given higher priority so that preview-latex will
     first cater for the images that are displayed.  There are various
     options customizable concerning aspects of that operation, see the
     customization group 'Preview Gs' for this.

     Another noteworthy setting of 'preview-image-type' is 'dvipng': in
     this case, the 'dvipng' program will get run on DVI output (see
     below for PDF).  This is in general much faster than Dvips and
     Ghostscript.  In that case, the option

'preview-dvipng-command'
     will get run for doing the conversion, and it is expected that

'preview-dvipng-image-type'
     images get produced ('dvipng' might be configured for other image
     types as well).  You will notice that 'preview-gs-image-type-alist'
     contains an entry for 'dvipng': this actually has nothing to with
     'dvipng' itself but specifies the image type and Ghostscript device
     option to use when 'dvipng' can't be used.  This will obviously be
     the case for PDF output by PDFLaTeX, but it will also happen if the
     DVI file contains PostScript specials in which case the affected
     images will get run through Dvips and Ghostscript once 'dvipng'
     finishes.

     Note for pLaTeX and upLaTeX users: It is known that 'dvipng' is not
     compatible with pLaTeX and upLaTeX.  If 'preview-image-type' is set
     to 'dvipng' and (u)pLaTeX is used, 'dvipng' just fails and
     preview-latex falls back on Dvips and Ghostscript.

'preview-gs-options'
     Most interesting to the user perhaps is the setting of this
     variable.  It contains the default antialiasing settings
     '-dTextAlphaBits=4' and '-dGraphicsAlphaBits=4'.  Decreasing those
     values to 2 or 1 might increase Ghostscript's performance if you
     find it lacking.

   Running and feeding Ghostscript from preview-latex happens
asynchronously again: you can resume editing while the images arrive.
While those pretty pictures filling in the blanks on screen tend to make
one marvel instead of work, rendering the non-displayed images
afterwards will not take away your attention and will eventually
guarantee that jumping around in the document will encounter only
prerendered images.


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6.4 Misplaced previews
======================

If you are reading this section, the first thing is to check that your
problem is not caused by x-symbol in connection with an installation not
supporting 8-bit characters (*note x-symbol interoperation::).  If not,
here's the beef:

   As explained previously, Emacs uses pseudo-error messages generated
by the 'preview' package in order to pinpoint the exact source location
where a preview originated.  This works in running text, but fails when
preview material happens to lie in macro arguments, like the contents of
'\emph'.  Those macros first read in their entire argument, munge it
through, perhaps transform it somehow, process it and perhaps then
typeset something.  When they finally typeset something, where is the
location where the stuff originated?  TeX, having read in the entire
argument before, does not know and actually there would be no sane way
of defining it.

   For previews contained inside such a macro argument, the default
behaviour of preview-latex is to use a position immediately after the
closing brace of the argument.  All the previews get placed there, all
at a zero-width position, which means that Emacs displays it in an order
that preview-latex cannot influence (currently in Emacs it is even
possible that the order changes between runs).  And since the placement
of those previews is goofed up, you will not be able to regenerate them
by clicking on them.  The default behaviour is thus somewhat
undesirable.

   The solution (like with other preview problems) is to tell the LaTeX
'preview' package how to tackle this problem (*note The LaTeX style
file::).  Simply, you don't need '\emph' do anything at all during
previews!  You only want the text math previewed, so the solution is to
use '\PreviewMacro*\emph' in the preamble of your document which will
make LaTeX ignore '\emph' completely as long as it is not part of a
larger preview (in which case it gets typeset as usual).  Its argument
thus becomes ordinary text and gets treated like ordinary text.

   Note that it would be a bad idea to declare
'\PreviewMacro*[{{}}]\emph' since then both '\emph' as well as its
argument would be ignored instead of previewed.  For user-level macros,
this is almost never wanted, but there may be internal macros where you
might want to ignore internal arguments.

   The same mechanism can be used for a number of other text-formatting
commands like '\textrm', '\textit' and the like.  While they all use the
same internal macro '\text@command', it will not do to redefine just
that, since they call it only after having read their argument in, and
then it already is too late.  So you need to disable every of those
commands by hand in your document preamble.

   Actually, we wrote all of the above just to scare you.  At least all
of the above mentioned macros and a few more are already catered for by
a configuration file 'prauctex.cfg' that gets loaded by default unless
the 'preview' package gets loaded with the 'noconfig' option.  You can
make your own copy of this file in a local directory and edit it in case
of need.  You can also add loading of a file of your liking to
'preview-default-preamble', or alternatively do the manual disabling of
your favorite macro in 'preview-default-preamble', which is customizable
in the Preview Latex group.


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Appendix A ToDo
***************

   * Support other formats than just LaTeX

     plain TeX users and ConTeXt users should not have to feel left out.
     While ConTeXt is not supported yet by released versions of AUCTeX,
     at least supporting plain would help people, and be a start for
     ConTeXt as well.  There are plain-based formats like MusiXTeX that
     could benefit a lot from preview-latex.  The main part of the
     difficulties here is to adapt 'preview.dtx' to produce stuff not
     requiring LaTeX.

   * Support nested snippets

     Currently you can't have both a footnote (which gets displayed as
     just its footnote number) and math inside of a footnote rendered as
     an image: such nesting might be achieved by rerunning preview-latex
     on the footnote contents when one opens the footnote for editing.

   * Support other text properties than just images

     Macros like '\textit' can be rendered as images, but the resulting
     humungous blob is not suitable for editing, in particular since the
     line filling from LaTeX does not coincide with that of Emacs.  It
     would be much more useful if text properties just switched the
     relevant font to italics rather than replacing the whole text with
     an image.  It would also make editing quite easier.  Then there are
     things like footnotes that are currently just replaced by their
     footnote number.  While editing is not a concern here (the number
     is not in the original text, anyway), it would save a lot of
     conversion time if no images were generated, but Emacs just
     displayed a properly fontified version of the footnote number.
     Also, this might make preview-latex useful even on text terminals.

   * Find a way to facilitate Source Specials

     Probably in connection with adding appropriate support to 'dvipng',
     it would be nice if clicking on an image from a larger piece of
     source code would place the cursor at the respective source code
     location.

   * Make 'preview.dtx' look reasonable in AUCTeX

     It is a bit embarrassing that 'preview.dtx' is written in a manner
     that will not give either good syntax highlighting or good
     indentation when employing AUCTeX.

   * Web page work

     Currently, preview-latex's web page is not structured at all.
     Better navigation would be desirable, as well as separate News and
     Errata eye catchers.

   * Manual improvements

        - Pepper the manual with screen shots and graphics

          This will be of interest for the HTML and TeX renditions of
          the texinfo manual.  Since Texinfo now supports images as
          well, this could well be nice to have.

        - Fix duplicates

          Various stuff appears several times.

   * Implement rendering pipelines for Emacs

     The current 'gs.el' interface is fundamentally flawed, not only
     because of a broken implementation.  A general batchable and
     daemonizable rendering infrastructure that can work on all kinds of
     preview images for embedding into buffers is warranted.  The
     current implementation has a rather adhoc flavor and is not easily
     extended.  It will not work outside of AUCTeX, either.

   * Integrate into RefTeX

     When referencing to equations and the like, the preview-images of
     the source rather than plain text should be displayed.  If the
     preview in question covers labels, those should appear in the
     bubble help and/or a context menu.  Apropos:

   * Implement LaTeX error indicators

     Previews on erroneous LaTeX passages might gain a red border or
     similar.

   * Pop up relevant online documentation for frequent errors

     A lot of errors are of the "badly configured" variety.  Perhaps the
     relevant info pages should be delivered in addition to the error
     message.

   * Implement a table editing mode where every table cell gets output
     as a separate preview.  Alternatively, output the complete table
     metrics in a way that lets people click on individual cells for
     editing purposes.

   * Benchmark and kill Emacs inefficiencies

     Both the LaTeX run under Emacs control as well as actual image
     insertion in Emacs could be faster.  CVS Emacs has improved in that
     respect, but it still is slower than desirable.

   * Improve image support under Emacs

     The general image and color handling in Emacs is inefficient and
     partly defective.  This is still the case in CVS. One option would
     be to replace the whole color and image handling with GDK routines
     when this library is available, since it has been optimized for it.


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Appendix B Frequently Asked Questions
*************************************

* Menu:

* Introduction to FAQ::
* Requirements::
* Installation Trouble::
* Customization::
* Troubleshooting::
* Other formats::


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B.1 Introduction
================

B.1.1 How can I contribute to the FAQ?
--------------------------------------

Send an email with the subject:
     Preview FAQ
   to <auctex-devel@gnu.org>.


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B.2 Requirements
================

B.2.1 Which version of (X)Emacs is needed?
------------------------------------------

See also the table at the end of the section.

   preview-latex nominally requires GNU Emacs with a version of at least
24.1.

B.2.2 Which versions of Ghostscript and AUCTeX are needed?
----------------------------------------------------------

We recommend to use GNU or AFPL Ghostscript with a version of at least
7.07.

   preview-latex has been distributed as part of AUCTeX since version
11.80.  If your version of AUCTeX is older than that, or if it does not
contain a working copy of preview-latex, complain to wherever you got it
from.

B.2.3 I have trouble with the display format...
-----------------------------------------------

We recommend keeping the variable 'preview-image-type' set to 'dvipng'
(if you have it installed) or 'png'.  This is the default and can be set
via the Preview/Customize menu.

   All other formats are known to have inconveniences, either in file
size or quality.  There are some Emacs versions around not supporting
PNG; the proper way to deal with that is to complain to your Emacs
provider.  Short of that, checking out PNM or JPEG formats might be a
good way to find out whether the lack of PNG format support might be the
only problem with your Emacs.

B.2.4 For which OS does preview work?
-------------------------------------

It is known to work under the X Window System for Linux and for several
flavors of Unix: we have reports for HP and Solaris.

   There are several development versions of Emacs around for native
MacOS Carbon, and preview-latex is working with them, too.

   With Windows, Cygwin should work.


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B.3 Installation Trouble
========================

B.3.1 I just get 'LaTeX found no preview images'.
-------------------------------------------------

The reason for this is that LaTeX found no preview images in the
document in question.

   One reason might be that there are no previews to be seen.  If you
have not used preview-latex before, you might not know its manner of
operation.  One sure-fire way to test if you just have a document where
no previews are to be found is to use the provided example document
'circ.tex' (you will have to copy it to some directory where you have
write permissions).  If the symptom persists, you have a problem, and
the problem is most likely a LaTeX problem.  Here are possible reasons:

Filename database not updated
     Various TeX distributions have their own ways of knowing where the
     files are without actually searching directories.  The normal
     preview-latex installation should detect common tools for that
     purpose and use them.  If this goes wrong, or if the files get
     installed into a place where they are not looked for, the LaTeX run
     will fail.

An incomplete manual installation
     This should not happen if you followed installation instructions.
     Unfortunately, people know better all the time.  If only
     'preview.sty' gets installed without a set of supplementary files
     also in the 'latex' subdirectory, preview-latex runs will not
     generate any errors, but they will not produce any previews,
     either.

An outdated 'preview' installation
     The 'preview.sty' package is useful for more than just
     preview-latex.  For example, it is part of TeXlive.  So you have to
     make sure that preview-latex does not get to work with outdated
     style and configuration files: some newer features will not work
     with older TeX style files, and really old files will make
     preview-latex fail completely.  There usual is a local 'texmf'
     tree, or even a user-specific tree that are searched before the
     default tree.  Make sure that the first version of those files that
     gets found is the correct one.


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B.4 Customization
=================

B.4.1 How to include additional environments like 'enumerate'
-------------------------------------------------------------

By default, preview-latex is intended mainly for displaying mathematical
formulas, so environments like 'enumerate' or 'tabular' (except where
contained in a float) are not included.  You can include them however
manually by adding the lines:

     \usepackage[displaymath,textmath,sections,graphics,floats]{preview}
     \PreviewEnvironment{enumerate}

   in your document header, that is before

     \begin{document}
In general, 'preview' should be loaded as the last thing before the
start of document.

   Be aware that

     \PreviewEnvironment{...}

   does not accept a comma separated list!  Also note that by putting
more and more

     \PreviewEnvironment{...}

   in your document, it will look more and more like a DVI file preview
when running preview-latex.  Since each preview is treated as one large
monolithic block by Emacs, one should really restrict previews to those
elements where the improvement in visual representation more than makes
up for the decreased editability.

B.4.2 What if I don't want to change the document?
--------------------------------------------------

The easiest way is to generate a configuration file in the current
directory.  You can basically either create 'prdefault.cfg' which is
used for any use of the 'preview' package, or you can use 'prauctex.cfg'
which only applies to the use from with Emacs.  Let us assume you use
the latter.  In that case you should write something like

     \InputIfFileExists{preview/prauctex.cfg}{}{}
     \PreviewEnvironment{enumerate}

   in it.  The first line inputs the system-wide default configuration
(the file name should match that, but not your own 'prauctex.cfg'), then
you add your own stuff.

B.4.3 Suddenly I get gazillions of ridiculous pages?!?
------------------------------------------------------

When preview-latex works on extracting its stuff, it typesets each
single preview on a page of its own.  This only happens when actual
previews get generated.  Now if you want to configure preview-latex in
your document, you need to add your own '\usepackage' call to 'preview'
so that it will be able to interpret its various definition commands.
It is an error to add the 'active' option to this invocation: you don't
want the package to be active unless preview-latex itself enables the
previewing operation (which it will).

B.4.4 Does preview-latex work with presentation classes?
--------------------------------------------------------

preview-latex should work with most presentation classes.  However,
since those classes often have macros or pseudo environments
encompassing a complete slide, you will need to use the customization
facilities of 'preview.sty' to tell it how to resolve this, whether you
want no previews, previews of whole slides or previews of inner
material.


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B.5 Troubleshooting
===================

B.5.1 Preview causes all sort of strange error messages
-------------------------------------------------------

When running preview-latex and taking a look at either log file or
terminal output, lots of messages like

     ! Preview: Snippet 3 started.
     <-><->

     l.52 \item Sie lassen sich als Funktion $
                                              y = f(x)$ darstellen.
     ! Preview: Snippet 3 ended.(491520+163840x2494310).
     <-><->

     l.52 \item Sie lassen sich als Funktion $y = f(x)$
                                                        darstellen.

   appear (previous versions generated messages looking even more like
errors).  Those are not real errors (as will be noted in the log file).
Or rather, while they *are* really TeX error messages, they are
intentional.  This currently is the only reliable way to pass the
information from the LaTeX run of preview-latex to its Emacs part about
where the previews originated in the source text.  Since they are actual
errors, you will also get AUCTeX to state
     Preview-LaTeX exited as expected with code 1 at Wed Sep  4 17:03:30
   after the LaTeX run in the run buffer.  This merely indicates that
errors were present, and errors will always be present when
preview-latex is operating.  There might be also real errors, so in case
of doubt, look for them explicitly in either run buffer or the resulting
'.log' file.

B.5.2 Why do my DVI and PDF output files vanish?
------------------------------------------------

In order to produce the preview images preview-latex runs LaTeX on the
master or region file.  The resulting DVI or PDF file can happen to have
the same name as the output file of a regular LaTeX run.  So the regular
output file gets overwritten and is subsequently deleted by
preview-latex.

B.5.3 My output file suddenly only contains preview images?!
------------------------------------------------------------

As mentioned in the previews FAQ entry, preview-latex might use the file
name of the original output file for the creation of preview images.  If
the original output file is being displayed with a viewer when this
happens, you might see strange effects depending on the viewer, e.g.  a
message about the file being corrupted or the display of all the preview
images instead of your typeset document.  (Also *Note Customization::.)


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B.6 preview-latex when not using LaTeX
======================================

B.6.1 Does preview-latex work with PDFLaTeX?
--------------------------------------------

Yes, as long as you use AUCTeX's own PDFLaTeX mode and have not messed
with 'TeX-command-list'.

B.6.2 Does preview-latex work with 'elatex'?
--------------------------------------------

No problem here.  If you configure your AUCTeX to use 'elatex', or
simply have 'latex' point to 'elatex', this will work fine.  Modern TeX
distributions use eTeX for LaTeX, anyway.

B.6.3 Does preview-latex work with ConTeXt?
-------------------------------------------

In short, no.  The 'preview' package is LaTeX-dependent.  Adding support
for other formats requires volunteers.

B.6.4 Does preview-latex work with plain TeX?
---------------------------------------------

Again, no.  Restructuring the 'preview' package for 'plain' operation
would be required.  Volunteers welcome.

   In some cases you might get around by making a wrapper pseudo-Master
file looking like the following:

     \documentclass{article}
     \usepackage{plain}
     \begin{document}
     \begin{plain}
     \input myplainfile
     \end{plain}
     \end{document}


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Appendix C Copying this Manual
******************************

The copyright notice for this manual is:

   This manual is for preview-latex, a LaTeX preview mode for AUCTeX
(version 12.2.5 from 2020-09-25).

   Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2017, 2018 Free
Software Foundation, Inc.

     Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
     document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License,
     Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software
     Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts and no
     Back-Cover Texts.  A copy of the license is included in the section
     entitled "GNU Free Documentation License."

   The full license text can be read here:

* Menu:

* GNU Free Documentation License:: License for copying this manual.


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C.1 GNU Free Documentation License
==================================

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* \PreviewEnvironment:                   Provided commands.   (line 124)
* \PreviewMacro:                         Provided commands.   (line  25)
* Activation:                            Activating preview-latex.
                                                              (line   6)
* C-c C-k:                               Keys and lisp.       (line 168)
* C-c C-m P:                             Keys and lisp.       (line  62)
* C-c C-p C-b:                           Keys and lisp.       (line  89)
* C-c C-p C-c C-b:                       Keys and lisp.       (line 115)
* C-c C-p C-c C-d:                       Keys and lisp.       (line 121)
* C-c C-p C-c C-p:                       Keys and lisp.       (line  99)
* C-c C-p C-c C-r:                       Keys and lisp.       (line 110)
* C-c C-p C-c C-s:                       Keys and lisp.       (line 105)
* C-c C-p C-d:                           Keys and lisp.       (line  94)
* C-c C-p C-e:                           Keys and lisp.       (line  74)
* C-c C-p C-f:                           Keys and lisp.       (line 128)
* C-c C-p C-i:                           Keys and lisp.       (line 155)
* C-c C-p C-p:                           Keys and lisp.       (line  23)
* C-c C-p C-r:                           Keys and lisp.       (line  84)
* C-c C-p C-s:                           Keys and lisp.       (line  79)
* C-c C-p C-w:                           Keys and lisp.       (line  45)
* C-u C-c C-p C-f:                       Keys and lisp.       (line 149)
* Caching a preamble:                    Simple customization.
                                                              (line  57)
* Contacts:                              Contacts.            (line   6)
* Copying:                               Copying.             (line   6)
* Copyright:                             Copying.             (line   6)
* Distribution:                          Copying.             (line   6)
* Download:                              Availability.        (line   6)
* FDL, GNU Free Documentation License:   GNU Free Documentation License.
                                                              (line   6)
* Free:                                  Copying.             (line   6)
* Free software:                         Copying.             (line   6)
* General Public License:                Copying.             (line   6)
* GIT access:                            Availability.        (line   6)
* GPL:                                   Copying.             (line   6)
* Inline math:                           Simple customization.
                                                              (line 108)
* Kill preview-generating process:       Keys and lisp.       (line 168)
* License:                               Copying.             (line   6)
* M-x preview-report-bug <RET>:          Keys and lisp.       (line 160)
* Mailing list:                          Contacts.            (line   6)
* Menu entries:                          Keys and lisp.       (line   6)
* Philosophy of preview-latex:           What use is it?.     (line   6)
* preview-at-point:                      Keys and lisp.       (line  23)
* preview-auctex-font-size:              The Emacs interface. (line  99)
* preview-auto-cache-preamble:           Simple customization.
                                                              (line  57)
* preview-buffer:                        Keys and lisp.       (line  89)
* preview-cache-preamble:                Keys and lisp.       (line 128)
* preview-cache-preamble-off:            Keys and lisp.       (line 149)
* preview-clearout:                      Keys and lisp.       (line 110)
* preview-clearout-at-point:             Keys and lisp.       (line  99)
* preview-clearout-buffer:               Keys and lisp.       (line 115)
* preview-clearout-document:             Keys and lisp.       (line 105)
* preview-clearout-document <1>:         Keys and lisp.       (line 121)
* preview-copy-region-as-mml:            Keys and lisp.       (line  45)
* preview-default-document-pt:           The Emacs interface. (line  82)
* preview-default-option-list:           The Emacs interface. (line  53)
* preview-default-preamble:              The Emacs interface. (line  54)
* preview-default-preamble <1>:          Misplaced previews.  (line  60)
* preview-default-preamble <2>:          Misplaced previews.  (line  61)
* preview-document:                      Keys and lisp.       (line  94)
* preview-document-pt:                   The Emacs interface. (line  96)
* preview-document-pt-list:              The Emacs interface. (line  81)
* preview-dvipng-command:                The preview images.  (line  40)
* preview-dvipng-image-type:             The preview images.  (line  43)
* preview-dvips-command:                 The Emacs interface. (line 124)
* preview-environment:                   Keys and lisp.       (line  74)
* preview-error-icon-specs:              The Emacs interface. (line 150)
* preview-fast-conversion:               The Emacs interface. (line  60)
* preview-fast-dvips-command:            The Emacs interface. (line 123)
* preview-goto-info-page:                Keys and lisp.       (line 155)
* preview-gs-image-type-alist:           The preview images.  (line   8)
* preview-gs-options:                    The preview images.  (line  59)
* preview-icon-specs:                    The Emacs interface. (line 151)
* preview-image-creators:                The preview images.  (line   7)
* preview-image-type:                    Basic modes of operation.
                                                              (line  17)
* preview-image-type <1>:                The preview images.  (line   6)
* preview-inner-environments:            The Emacs interface. (line 156)
* preview-LaTeX-command:                 The Emacs interface. (line  11)
* preview-LaTeX-command-replacements:    The Emacs interface. (line  25)
* preview-nonready-icon-specs:           The Emacs interface. (line 143)
* preview-parsed-font-size:              The Emacs interface. (line  99)
* preview-pdf-adjust-color-method:       No images are displayed with gs 9.27 and earlier.
                                                              (line  15)
* preview-prefer-TeX-bb:                 The Emacs interface. (line  69)
* preview-preserve-counters:             Simple customization.
                                                              (line  61)
* preview-preserve-counters <1>:         The Emacs interface. (line  47)
* preview-reference-face:                The Emacs interface. (line  80)
* preview-region:                        Keys and lisp.       (line  84)
* preview-report-bug:                    Keys and lisp.       (line 160)
* preview-required-option-list:          Simple customization.
                                                              (line  61)
* preview-required-option-list <1>:      The Emacs interface. (line  35)
* preview-scale-function:                The Emacs interface. (line  79)
* preview-section:                       Keys and lisp.       (line  79)
* preview-transparent-border:            Keys and lisp.       (line  55)
* Readme:                                Introduction.        (line   6)
* Report a bug:                          Keys and lisp.       (line 160)
* Right:                                 Copying.             (line   6)
* Showing \labels:                       Simple customization.
                                                              (line  21)
* Using dvipng:                          Basic modes of operation.
                                                              (line  19)
* Warranty:                              Copying.             (line   6)



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